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Originally Posted by DMB
I think this is a somewhat naive view of how discussion boards work. I doubt that anyone here would have a problem with reading opinions that contradict their own. The problem arises not from opinions per se but from behaviour. To take an imaginary and loose RL example, suppose you are sitting in a room overlooking the street having a serious and amicable discussion with friends. Other people passing by might be interested and want to come into the room to join in. But then a few noisy kids come along and start rapping on the window, jumping up and down, shouting and pulling faces. They are an irritating distraction for the participants in the discussion. So a possible solution is to pull down the thick blind on the window and blank them out. That is like using "ignore".
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with interest. When people are deliberately provacative (or plain immature), why would you want to even be exposed to their input?